Makes Google Glass look like Tom Ford.
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Would you choose to save your fingers by wearing cat ears on your head?
I am not imbibing alcoholized catnip. I am merely marveling at the ideas that emerge from the minds of clever cats at Berkeley.
One of these ideas uses a technology called Neurosky. Those who find Google Glass to be highly inventive -- but maybe not so stylish -- will look at the Neurosky headsets and wonder just how soon after putting them on they will be intercepted by people in long, white coats.
There is a probe touching your forehead, resembling the same motion you sometimes make with your finger when you're feeling particularly stupid.
Still, these fine Berkeley minds believe that once you buy one of these relatively cheap pieces of headgear ($199), you'll be able to avoid ever having to type a password.
Yes, your favorite e-mail address or entertainment Web site will open with a mere passthought.
As The Verge reports, such an astonishingly subtle action can be achieved with an off-the-shelf electroencephalogram (EEG).
The Neurosky Mindset is one such device and its error rate in passing along passthoughts was allegedly 1 percent.
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